Winds rushing at 50 knots, snow swirling through the air and hair whipping your eyes so fiercely that you can't keep them open long enough to see where you are walking... just another day at the…
Sliding through the ice in transit to our next station yesterday evening, all was serene off the "fantail" (the back porch of the boat). Sitting on a ledge in the back window, I could see grease ice…
Latitude: 59 26.555N
Longitude: 167 47.581WLife on the Healy this Saturday was filled with strange happenings. It started at 3:24 in the morning with a resounding "Now. There's a major fuel leak in…
Latitude: 61 46.025 N
Longitude: 168 55.005 W
The Captain had already briefed us on the potential ice hazards. Everyone had wiggled and pulled, squirmed and struggle to suit up in our MSD900…
Latitude: 62 10.711 N
Longitude: 174 16.458So what do 130 people eat for four meals a day in the middle of the Bering Sea? A lot! Curious about what goes on behind the scenes in this miniature…
Latitude: 61 59.70Longitude: 17 618.76
"I really like that ice but if I can't have that then how about over there, before the ridge?" Katrin Iken, polar marine biologist from the University of…
The familiar creaking, squeaking and groaning that meant we were cutting through thick ice returned on Monday morning. Back in the thick of it. It looked as if the ship were moving on top of land…
Longitude: 59 54.41N
Latitude: 178 54.77WPeep, peep, peep went my pager on Easter morning at 2 am. We weren't looking for Easter eggs on the bottom of the ocean at the middle of the night but it was…
Latitude: 59 54.632N
Longitude: 178 06.651W
If the snow swirling around you on the slush covered bow at -30°F degrees wind chill this morning isn't enough for you... or if it is still too dark to…
Lat: 59 52.757N
Long: 173 31.007W
What's a CTD? And for that matter, what's the difference between a CTD STD and a CTD PROD? Nearly everything that happens, scientifically speaking, on the Healy…
There are little boxes of ear plugs all around the ship for areas like these.
Warning! Danger! Notice! If you know how to read there are lots of directions to be followed on the Healy! Before…
The mud team took a break from the brown stuff and dabbled a bit in white this morning. As a newly appointed (temporary) member of the sediment-team, I too, headed "down the brow". After preparing…
